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When the tide is high, you can see the Atlantic pushing up through a deep, jagged hole in the rock.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

A tiny house showcases the busy life of a local gnome.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

In the Netherlands, one of the world's largest private car collections can be found.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.